Komunistička represija u Hrvatskoj prema pisanju lista Vjesnik, svibanj – kolovoz 1945. godine
COMMUNIST REPRESSION IN CROATIA ACCORDING TO THE JOURNALISM OF THE NEWSPAPER VJESNIK, MAY–AUGUST 1945

Summary/Abstract: Through analysis of selected and key articles in Zagreb’s Vjesnik, one of the most influential newspapers in Democratic Federal Yugoslavia, this article shows the world view and main topics of interest in the immediate postwar period. The main task of all media, and thereby also Vjesnik, was propaganda for the purposes of promoting party ideology on the basis of a completely egalitarian future for all the nations of Yugoslavia following the example of the Soviet model. Since Vjesnik was a party organ, it transmitted the ideological programme of the Communist Party and alongside its goal of providing news information it had a propagandistic function. This article thus also shows what the role of the press, that is Vjesnik, was in shaping public opinion, with an emphasis on pointing out the manner in which Yugoslavian Communist government repression was carried out in the period from May to August 1945. From the examples presented it can be seen that in Vjesnik much of what was written had to do with the successes of the new Communist government and about the efforts of their enemies to undermine them. This includes a large number of articles dealing with trials concerning wartime and postwar activities. Likewise there was a significant propaganda against the Catholic Church and the Croatian Peasant Party, as well as a constant propaganda about the issue of Trieste’s annexation to Yugoslavia. Besides this, the names of those individuals sentenced to harsh and long punishments, of those who lost their political and civil rights, and of those whose property was confiscated were published.

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